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Animal communication

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• Animal behavior

• Animal communication -- Early works to 1800
• Animal sounds
• Sound production by animals

• Animal biocommunication
• Animal language
• Biocommunication, Animal
• Language learning by animals

• Ein Märchen von der Thiersprache, Quelle und Verbreitung (extract from "Orient und Occident", in German; 1864), by Theodor Benfey (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Philosophical Amusement Upon the Language of Beasts and Birds: Written Originally in French by Father Bougeant, a Famous Jesuit, Now Confined at La Fleche, on Account of This Work (second edition corrected; London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1740), by G.-H. Bougeant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Philosophical Amusement Upon the Language of Beasts and Birds: Written Originally in French by Father Bougeant, a Famous Jesuit, Now Confined at La Fleche, on Account of This Work (second edition corrected; London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1740), by G.-H. Bougeant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Oink! Moo! How Do You Do? A Book of Animal Sounds, by Grace Maccarone, illust. by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Songs of the Birds (London: J. Lane, 1922), by Walter Garstang, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the Birds (second edition, revised and enlarged; London: J. Lane, 1923), by Walter Garstang, illust. by J. A. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Species Limits in the Indigobirds (Ploceidae, Vidua) of West Africa: Mouth Mimicry, Song Mimicry, and Description of New Species (1982), by Robert B. Payne (PDF at Michigan)

• Apes and Monkeys: Their Life and Language (ca. 1900), by R. L. Garner (illustrated HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience (second edition; Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2009), ed. by Jerry J. Buccafusco (illustrated HTML at NIH)
• Concerning Animals and Other Matters (London: J. Murray, 1914), by Edward Hamilton Aitken (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dan Beard's Animal Book and Camp-Fire Stories (new and enlarged edition; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., 1910), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Industries of Animals (London: W. Scott, 1893), by Frédéric Houssay (PDF at djm.cc)
• Instinct Displayed in a Collection of Well-authenticated Facts, Exemplifying the Extraordinary Sagacity of Various Species of the Animal Creation (5th edition; London: Darton and Harvey, 1836), by Priscilla Wakefield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Little Brother to the Bear, and Other Animal Studies, by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations, by William T. Hornaday (Gutenberg text)
• School of the Woods: Some Life Studies of Animal Instincts and Animal Training (Boston: Ginn and Company, c1902), by William J. Long, illust. by Charles Copeland (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers (New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901), by John Burroughs (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Those Other Animals, by G. A. Henty, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ways of Wood Folk (first series; Boston: Ginn and Co., 1902), by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wilderness Ways (second series; Boston: Ginn and Company, 1900), by William J. Long, illust. by Charles Copeland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wood Folk at School (Boston et al: Ginn and Co., c1903), by William J. Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Life in a Man-Made Jungle (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1940), by Belle Jennings Benchley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Animal Biography: or, Popular Zoology (based on the second edition (1804), with added illustrations and notes), by William Bingley, ed. by Louise Hope (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Insect Architecture (London: Bell and Daldy, 1869), by James Rennie, ed. by J. G. Wood (images at HathiTrust)
• The Naturalist in La Plata (third edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by W. H. Hudson, illust. by J. Smit (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wild Animals at Home (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Ernest Thompson Seton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• My Animal Babies (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1945), by Belle Jennings Benchley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Cat, Her Mind and Manners: An Introduction To Comparative Psychology (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Georgina Stickland Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Hind in Richmond Park (London and Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1922), by W. H. Hudson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain (based on the 1991 edition), by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts: With Their Figures Engraven in Brass (London, 1678), by Joannes Jonstonus, trans. by J. P. (page images at Wisconsin)

• Children of the Wild (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Charles G. D. Roberts (Gutenberg text)
• Animal Land, Where There Are No People (second edition; London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1897), by Sybil Corbet and Katharine Corbet, contrib. by Andrew Lang (page images at ufl.edu)

• Secrets of the Woods, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text)
• Secrets of the Woods (Boston and London: Ginn and Company, 1902), by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Burgess Animal Book for Children, by Thornton W. Burgess (Gutenberg text and audio reading)

• The Journal of Animal Behavior (full serial archives)
• The Journal of Comparative Psychology (partial serial archives)

• Perils Afloat and Brigands Ashore (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1886), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Art of Cockfighting: A Handbook for Beginners and Old Timers (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1949), by Arch Ruport (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Game Fowl: Its Origin and History; With Sketches of Great Strains and Their Breeders of Former and Present Times, Together With a Complete Treatise on Breeding and Management of Fowls at Home and at the Pit, Their Diseases and Remedies, and Rules of the Cockpit (Gaffney, SC: Presses of Grit and Steel, ca. 1906), by R. A. McIntyre (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Pit Bull Terrier: A Complete Treatise on the Breed Covering the Entire Field, Useful and Valuable to All Owners of an American Pit Bull Terrier (Sacramento: The News Publishing Co., 1936), by Joseph L. Colby (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thirty Years With Fighting Dogs (Washington: Jack Jones, 1935), by George C. Armitage (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Eye of the Crocodile (Canberra: ANU E Press, c2012), by Val Plumwood, ed. by Lorraine Shannon (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)

• Impact of Red Fox Predation on the Sex Ratio of Prairie Mallards, by Douglas H. Johnson and Alan B. Sargeant (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine`)

• The Industries of Animals (London: W. Scott, 1893), by Frédéric Houssay (PDF at djm.cc)

• An Introduction to the Study of the Oestrous Cycle in the Dog (Memoirs of the University of California v9 #2; 1931), by Herbert M. Evans and H. H. Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)
• The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (first edition; London: John Murray, 1871), by Charles Darwin
  • Volume I: illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online
  • Volume II: illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online

• New Observations on The Natural History of Bees (London: Printed for J. Anderson, 1806), by François Huber
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Cornell

More items available under broader and related terms at left.